Jahi McMath, the 13-year-old Oakland, Calif., girl declared brain dead after complications from surgery, was quickly and quietly moved from Children’s Hospital of Oakland Sunday evening, the hospital confirmed.

The move came hours after the her family’s attorney said they would be moving her to a treatment facility “come hell or high water” before Tuesday’s 5 p.m. deadline for the hospital to turn off her ventilator. MaMath’s family has remained hopeful that she will recover despite the hospital maintaining that she is already dead.

David Durand, chief of pediatrics at the hospital, sent a news release just after 8:30 p.m. PT confirming she was moved.

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“A short while ago, the body of Jahi McMath was released by Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland to the coroner,” he wrote. “The coroner has released her body to the custody of her mother, Latasha Winkfield, as per court order, for a destination unknown.”

“Our hearts go out to the family as they grievefor this sad situation and we wish them closure and peace.”

A tweet sent from an account that has been used by Jahi’s uncle, Omari Shealey just minutes before the move, said, “I told you we’d do it!!! I love you Jahi and I will come visit you soon baby girl. Your Uncle is a BEAST!!!”

The family’s attorney, Christopher Dolan plans to hold a news conference later this evening at his San Francisco office.

Sunday morning, he told KPIX 5 that the family had lined up a facility, transportation and a medical staff for the 13-year-old, who has been on a ventilator at the hospital since developing complications and suffering cardiac arrest after a three-part surgery to remove her tonsils and clear tissue from her nose and throat at the facility Dec. 9.

On Friday, the family and hospital agreed through a compromise forged in Alameda Superior Court that Jahi’s mother may remove her from the hospital as long as Jahi’s mother, Nailah Winkfield, takes responsibility for the child’s care.

A temporary restraining order granted by Judge Evelio Grillo had forced the hospital to keep Jahi on a ventilator until 5 p.m. Tuesday.

Dolan did not say where Jahi was being taken, but court documents revealed that the Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network has been working to place her in a New York facility and that Georgia-based Medway Air Ambulance would provide the transportation.

A call to the Life & Hope Network went unanswered Sunday morning. An email to MedWay Air Ambulance president Rick Moore was not answered immediately. Court documents said the approximate cost to transport Jahi was just shy of $32,000; the Jahi McMath page at the gofundme.com website said Tuesday that $47,842 had been raised for Jahi by Sunday morning.

Alameda County Sheriff’s Office spokesman J.D. Nelson said Friday that a death certificate has been issued for Jahi, but Dolan insisted in Sunday’s interview that “she has not passed. Her kidneys function, she regulates her temperature, and her body moves now more than ever. This is a real human being, not a dead body.”

The hospital, however, continued to dispute that, as well as Dolan’s assertion that Children’s Hospital Oakland has “withheld food for 26 days,” the result of which has “kept Jahi (from receiving) nutrients that might help her brain to be at an optimum place” for recovery.

“Sadly … Mr. Dolan is not being truthful to the public or his clients,” Singer said. “When he says his ‘medical team’ wants to feed her body so her brain will have the optimum nutrients, he is either being purposely deceptive or ignorant. In either case, he is perpetuating a sad and tragic hoax on the public and the McMath family. Tragically, this young woman is dead, and there is no food, no medical procedures and no amount of time that will bring back the deceased.”

The agreement states that the hospital will allow a transfer team to enter the facility and move out Jahi, with her entire health responsibility, and the responsibility of the move falling to the mother. Jahi’s tubes from the ventilator are to be removed and placed into the transport team’s equipment, along with other devices, and her body will be moved from the hospital’s gurney to a new one. Her medical records, medications and a status report also will be handed over, and the hospital will sever ties with her, the agreement states.

“Now we have a clear path,” Dolan told the station. “When you have a clear path, you begin running, especially when time is ticking down.”